Re: LPR printing backend and missing ppd:s

[Adam Fedor]

On Aug 29, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> The recent printing changes have had the side effect of breaking any  
> app that uses NSPrint* pretty bad when using the LPR backend. The  
> problem is that the LPR backend needs to create a default printer, and  
> if no printer has been specified, it creates a fallback printer of  
> type "Apple_LaserWriter_II_NTX" and tries to load the ppd for it. The  
> ppd isn't installed, and the code doesn't handle this very gracefully.
>
> Since I'm not sure how well the code can cope with ppd:s that aren't  
> present, it seems that the best solution is to make the fallback  
> printer a generic postscript printer, and to include a generic  
> postscript printer ppd in -gui. I've done the code changes locally,  
> but I need a suitable ppd. I found one here:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Generic- 
> PostScript_Printer
>
> which seems to work ok. However, it's GPL:d, not LGPL:d. Can we  
> include it anyway? (License certainly isn't any worse than the license  
> on the ppd:s we used to include, but still...)


GPL is fine. Only stuff that actually goes into the library needs to be  
LGPL.